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Projects in production and development

NFB Studio: French animation

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Genre / Length

Director, NFB Producer and Co-Producer

Synopsis

Release date

Projects in release

THE SUBJECT

Short Animation

Director: Patrick Bouchard

Producer: Julie Roy

Stop motion animated film emphasizing free and improvised yet structured creation. All kinds of salvaged parts are collected and either instinctively or thoughtfully arranged so as to create meaning each time. This constantly changing, lively and expansive process moves toward the revelation of an art object.

Spring 2018

Projects in production

THE AWAKENING

Short Animation

Director: Jean-Francois Lévesque

Producer: Julie Roy

The awakening recounts the initiatory journey of a suicidal priest tormented by his ego. A brief death experience brings him back to life.

Summer 2019

ACCOUNTING OF THE DAYS

Short Animation

Director: Regina Pessoa

Producer: Julie Roy

Co Producers: Cyclopes Films, Les Armateurs and Unipessoal

Regina Pessoa draws on her childhood memories to pay tribute to her uncle Thomas. Though he lived a simple, ordinary life, this unsung hero had an extraordinary impact on his niece.

Summer 2019

ALTÖTTING

Short Animation

Director: Andreas Hykade

Producer: Marc Bertrand

Co-Producer: Ciclope filmes, Unipessoal and Studio Film Bilder

A young boy fascinated with the icons in a neighbouring village’s chapel undertakes an annual pilgrimage.

Fall 2019

MAUVAISES HERBES

Short Animation

Director: Claude Cloutier

Producer: Julie Roy

Co-Producer: Unité Centrale

This animated fable stars strange creatures that could almost be human, even though they also have animal and plant parts. Like all good fables, the film provides much food for thought on moral issues.

Summer 2019

PHYSIQUE DE LA TRISTESSE

Short Animation

Director: Theodore Ushev

Producer: Marc Bertrand

“I’m nobody here. I don’t even know my name anymore. My name can be translated three different ways. And since Plato said that objects and people were deeply connected to their name, I’m connected to three people, because I have three different names. If you count their translation in both official languages, that makes six! In any case, regardless of these six different names, it’s never me.” (T. Ushev)

Summer 2019

LE TABLEAU

Short Animation on pinscreen

Director: Michèle Lemieux

Producer: Julie Roy

The opening of the film shows pins landing on a screen and forming a blackboard. The pins move quickly through space like a swarm of bees. Fleeting images appear and distort like an anamorphosis. These simple images cast shadows on the planes of the subconscious and form ideas that haunt the painter.

Summer 2020

LE CORTÈGE

Short Animation

Directors: Pascal Blanchet and Rodolphe Saint-Gelais

Producer: Julie Roy

In this short film, a man has just buried the woman he loved. Family, friends and guests gather at his house after the funeral. As the afternoon wears on, they head home one by one till the man is left alone with his grief.

Winter 2019

SANS OBJETS

Short Animation

Director: Moïa Jobin-Paré

Producer: Marc Bertrand

Experimental study showing the body movements in relation to objects that we do not see.

Spring 2019

COMME UN FLEUVE

Short Animation

Director: Sandra Desmazières

Producer: Julie Roy

Co-producer : Les films de l’Arlequin

The intertwined destinies of two sisters separated by the Vietnam War.

Five women filmmakers from the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region will each direct a 3-minute documentary short, for distribution via digital platforms and social networks, investigating the foundations of classic documentary film language and form.

Now on nfb.ca

THE APOLLO OF GAZA

Feature Documentary

Director: Nicolas Wadimoff

Producer: Colette Loumède

The story of a 2,500-year-old statue of Apollo that washed up in a fisherman’s net and wound up being put up for sale on eBay.

Launched

PAULINE JULIEN
INTIMATE AND POLITICAL

Feature Documentary

Director: Pascale Ferland

Producer: Johanne Bergeron

Pauline Julien was one of Quebec’s best-known and most loved singers during a pivotal time in the province’s history. And, as an engaged feminist and nationalist, she left behind a significant cultural and political legacy.

Launched

FIRST STRIPES

Feature Documentary

Director: Jean-François Caissy

Producer: Johanne Bergeron

For his third opus, the filmmaker is focusing his camera on the 18-to-25-year-old age group by following soldiers in the Canadian Armed Forces during the first stage of their training: boot camp

Launched

MY WAR

Feature Documentary

Director: Julien Fréchette

Producer: Colette Loumède

A documentary that explores the little-understood phenomenon of volunteers joining the ranks of Kurdish fighters battling ISIS.

Launched

Projects in production

SORTIR DE L’OMBRE

Feature Documentary

Director : Gentille Assih

Producer : Nathalie Cloutier

Sortir de l’ombre lift the veil on the path of women who followed their husbands in their immigration project and who found themselves trapped in the spiral of conjugal violence.

Fall 2019

FAR FROM BASHAR

Feature Documentary

Director: Pascal Sanchez

Producer: Nathalie Cloutier

Far from Bashar tells the story of a Syrian family in Montreal. As the children attempt to shape a daily life for themselves, their parents live in hope of one day returning to build their country.

Fall 2018

RAMAILLAGES

Documentary

Director: Moïse Marcoux-Chabot

Producer: Colette Loumède

Communities all across the vast Gaspé Peninsula are driven by the desire for a healthier way of living, and the need to collectively confront ecological and social crises. Ramaillages will be shot in these communities over a span of one year, using cinéma direct techniques.

Summer 2019

LA FIN DES TERRES

Feature Documentary

Director: Loïc Darses

Producer: Colette Loumède

While the perspective of political independence appears to be quietly fading from the Quebec landscape, a young filmmaker examines the national conscience of the first post-referendum generation.

Winter 2019

LE FOND DE L’AIR

Feature Documentary

Director: Simon Beaulieu

Producer: Nathalie Cloutier

This project is a kind of sweeping political panorama that blends archival images, actual shots, and experimentation with form and narrative. It seeks to understand the status of Quebec’s collective future.

Winter 2019

LA FILLE DU CRATÈRE

Feature Documentary

Directors: Nadine Beaudet et Danic Champoux

Producer: Johanne Bergeron

Co-producer: Les vues du fleuve

A portrait of Yolande Simard Perrault, a woman of the land, as solid as the Laurentian Shield, who had a major impact on the work of Pierre Perrault, her partner and true love.

Summer 2019

KOMBATTANT

Mid-lenght Documentary

Director: Will Prosper

Producer: Nathalie Cloutier

Alain Philoctète, a Haitian forced into exile under the Duvalier regime, is determined to bequeath the permaculture to Haitian farmers.

Winter 2019

POINT D’ÉQUILIBRE

Feature Documentary

Director: Christine Chevarie-Lessard

Producer: Nathalie Cloutier

Co-Producer: Avenida

Filmed over one year, the documentary will capture the entry of children admitted to the École supérieure de ballet du Québec.

December 2018

EN ATTENDANT RAÏF

Feature Documentary

Directors: Patricio Henriquez, Luc Côté

Producer: Colette Loumède

Co-Producer: Macumba media

This documentary will follow the incredible story of Raïf Badawi and his family, who lives in Canada and with whom the two directors have had close contact since 2013.

Fall 2020

LES ROSE

Feature Documentary

Director: Félix Rose

Producer: Colette Loumède

Co-Producer: Productions Babel

In October 1970, the Rose brothers – Paul and Jacques – and the Chénier cell of the FLQ kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte. Now, Félix, the son of Paul Rose, undertakes an introspective quest to rediscover his family’s history.

Fall 2019

AU-DELÀ DU PAPIER

Feature Documentary

Director: Oana Suteu

Producer: Nathalie Cloutier

What is becoming of our memory in the digital age? The film explores two parallel themes: reconstructing an identity via paper documents and the quest for meaning in the change that our relationship with memory is undergoing.

Winter 2020

Projects in development

NIN, AUASS

Documentaire / Long métrage

Director: Kim O’Bomsawin

Producer: Colette Loumède

An intimate portrait of the experience of early childhood in various Indigenous communities.

To be determined

NFB Studio: Francophonie

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WITHOUT MOM

Feature Documentary

Director: Marie-France Guerrette

Producer: Dominic Desjardins / Denis McCready

The filmmaker, who was a teenager when her mother died, explores the bright and dark sides of her mother’s legacy while also addressing the topics of genetic testing and breast cancer.

Fall 2018

THE ARTISANS

Feature Documentary

Director: Daniel Léger

Producer: Jac Gautreau

A visit to the Artisan Workshop in Memramcook, which plays a decisive role in the inclusion of people with special needs in its community.

Summer 2018

Projects in production

STANDING ON THE LINE

Feature Documentary

Director: Paul Émile D’Entremont

Producer: Jac Gautreau/ Christine Aubé

A project on young athletes torn between their sexual orientation and their love of sports.

Fall 2018

PLUS HAUT QUE LES FLAMMES

Feature Documentary

Director: Monique Leblanc

Producer: Jac Gautreau / Christine Aubé

Lyrical director-driven documentary inspired by the poetry anthology of the same name by Louise Dupré, and comprising two narrative elements: one of Dupré’s poems, and the experiences of grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren.

Winter 2019

LE BONHEUR DE LUCIEN

Tremplin competition (Acadie)

Short Documentary

Director: Nathalie HébertProducer: Christine Aubé

Everyone is looking for perfect happiness. Except Lucien. He’s found it by not looking for anything at all.

Spring 2019

LA RÉVOLUTION COURBES

Tremplin competition

Short Documentary

Director: Josiane Blanc

Producer: Denis McCready

The documentary sets out to meet women who are at different stages in accepting their imperfections and seeks to break taboos about body diversity.

Spring 2019

YALLA
Feature Documentary

Directors: France Gallant, Samuel Caron

Producer: Christine Aubé

Coproducer: Appalaches Films

This film tackles the still taboo topic of therapeutic abortion (or MTP- medical termination of pregnancy), focusing on the human impacts, such as the unique bereavement parents experience following an MTP.

Summer 2019

SUR LA CORDE RAIDE

Feature Documentary

Director: Claude Guilemain

Producer: Dominic Desjardins / Denis McCready

This project by Claude Guilemain deals with Canada’s refusal to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and sets out to explore various perspectives of that important decision.

Winter 2019

Projects in development

LE DÉDRIMEUR
Interactive Animation

Director: Jean-Pierre Morin

Producers: Jac Gautreau / Christine Aubé

The daydreamer is a superhero who has only one super power: the ability to daydream.

To be determined

LE SILENCE
Feature Documentary

Director: Renée Blanchar

Producer: Christine Aubé

Coproducer: Ça tourne productions

The silence of a victim, a tormenter, a loved one, a community, an institution. . . and of a filmmaker.

To be determined

COINCÉE AU MILIEU
Feature Documentary

Director: Saida Ouchaou

Producers: Dominic Desjardins / Denis McCready

Highlighting the feminist movement that exists and that is claiming its place in Islam in Canada and the United States, the director wants to give a voice to Muslim women who experience their faith in a context of emancipation.

2020

LES DOUÉS
Short Animation

Director: Laura Bergeron

Producer: Denis McCready
A look at the pervasiveness of technology in our society and how it affects learning.

The NFB partners with UQAM to offer 8 students the opportunity to complete a 9-week apprenticeship at the Interactive Studio, during which they will produce digital content via a reactive approach adhering to current phenomena.

Spring 2018

PIRATE TA BOUTIQUE
Interactive production for social medias

Creator: Joël Ronez

Producer: Hugues Sweeney

Co-Producer: Arte France

A participatory work about new business models of the digital age, known variously as sharing, collaborative or peer-to-peer economy. These new models, like Uber, are destabilizing traditional ones, and this is just the beginning.

Fall 2018

STREAMERS
Interactive browser based documentary

Creative head: Guillaume Braun

Producer: Louis-Richard Tremblay

Co-Producer: Arte

An interactive experience that dives into the world of online gamers who film themselves in action, sparking reflection on this new kind of celebrity.